"We are nature"

	Robert Macfarlane (@RobGMacfarlane)
5/12/18, 10:27 AM "We are not separate from nature. We are nature, an ancient truth that can perhaps most clearly be seen through the eyes of lakes": fine @curtstager essay on the deep-time lessons of Thoreau's Walden's Pond. nautil.us/issue/60/searc…

Electric cars next

	TIME (@TIME)
5/8/18, 5:45 PM 20% of Americans say their next car will be electric, a survey by AAA has found ti.me/2rtDALn

Joel Kovel

Joel Kovel, a former Freudian psychiatrist who evolved into an apostle of what he called ecosocialism, a so-called green-and-red agenda against the environmental evils of globalization and in favor of the nonviolent eradication of capitalism, died on Monday in Manhattan. He was 81...

Under ecosocialist theory, income would be guaranteed, most property and means of production would be commonly owned, and the abolition of capitalism, globalism and imperialism would unleash environmentalists to vastly curtail industrialization and development whose pollution would otherwise cause catastrophic global warming.

“Capitalist production, in its endless search for profit, seeks to turn everything into a commodity,” Dr. Kovel wrote in 2007 on the socialist website Climate and Capitalism. “It is plain that production will have to shift from being dominated by exchange — the path of the commodity — to that which is for use, that is for the direct meeting of human needs.”

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